Printing plate



April 21, 1931. R. M. DUGDALE 1,801,593

Y PRINTING PLATE Filed June 29, 1929 OHN DOE 0 STATE 5T.

BOSTON MASS.

I ,Rie/ma /daze @www mm@ y Patented Apr. 21, -1931 UNITED STATES PATENT' ori-ICE RICHARD M. DUGDALE, 0F DEIOHAM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T0 FARRINGTON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 0F BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS PRINTING PLATE Application led June 29, 1929. Serial No. 374,715.

This invention relates to printing( plates adapted particularly for use in hand stamping or printing devices of the type described and claimed in my copending application Serial No. 359,816, filed May 2, 1929, although the subject matter of the present invention may be employed in association with printing machines of other types.

The principal object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive, yet durable and efficient, printing plate Which bea-rs the name and address of the customer of a department store or the like and which carries an identification device secured Within the bounds of the plate, so that the article may be carried by the customer and used as a means of identification as Well as a printing device ensuring the correct inscription of the customers name by the sales person.

More specifically, the invention contemplates the provision of an improved printing plate preferably formed of pressed sheet metal which has a raised central portion and peripheral base fianges bordering a bottom recess, raised type stamped in the upper surface of said central portion and a card or sheet received Within the bottom recess and retained therein by tongues struck from the base margins and bent over opposite edges of the sheet, the tongues preferably lying Within the recess at or above the plane of the base anges, so that the base of the plate presents a flat and smooth surface.

The device may be made in small and ycomact size and convenient shape to be carried 1n a purse and, as above suggested, is especially adapted to be used by customers having charge accounts in retai-l stores to serve the double purpose of replacing the identification coins now in common use and of eliminating errors in the customers'name and address which frequently arise from incorrect understanding or inaccurate transcription of these important details on the part of the sales person who, under prevailang practice, writes down the customers order on the usual sales slips.

Recommended embodiments of the invention are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Fig. 1 is a top vieW of one form of the improved printing plate;

- Fig. 2 is a bottom view thereof, showing the identification card in place;

Fig. 3 is a central transverse section of the device; and

Fig. 4 is a bottom view illustrating a modification.

The plate is preferably stamped from sheet metal and is shaped to provide a raised central portion or top 5 anda peripheral base Harige 6 spaced below the top by integral shoulders bordering a bottom recess 7 The plate is preferably rectangular in form, but other shapes may be selected according to the construction of the printing device in which the plate is to be inserted. Raised characters 8 are stamped in the top 5 to furnish the name and address of a customer or such other data as is desirable, and when the plate is to be used in the printer described in my said copending application the characters may be arranged in non-reversed order for ready reading.

A thin sheet 9 of cardboard or other suitable material its Within the bottom recess 7 and is preferably retained therein by means of tongues 10 struck from the base flange 6 at opposite sides of the recess and bent over the adjacent edges of the sheet so that the tongues lie Within the recess at or above the plane of the flat, marginal base. The exposed surface of the sheet or card 9 is adapted to display the customers signature and such other indicia as will indicate that the person presenting the device is an authorized charge customer of the store in question. .The card may, for example, bear the countersignatures of representatives of several stores, or other distinctive marks showing that the signatory customer is entitled to credit at any one of such stores.

In Figs. 1 to 3' the tongues 10 are spaced along the longer sides of a rectangular bottom recess intermediate the ends thereof; Whereas in Fig. 4, the tongues 11 are located at the corners of the recess. Other tongue' arrangements are obvious, and it will be understood that structural details of the devicesaboyzedescribed may be varied to suit particuiar purposes without departing ein the essence of this invention is defined in tile appended claims.

From the foregoing it is apparent the simple and praeticei combine-tien et efficient address plate and e ne; Ui ident ication card which is secured gitiiin e recess of the plate and, protected thereby against fra 'ng or tearing, furnishes inexpensive an convenient device suiteeie for carry/i fr in a purse or a pocket and quie i i ,Heem to a printing or marking' meen rately duplicating vthe raised indicia nnen the sales slips. As the top ei? the intended to be applied. direetijf t bottom surface of the sedes slip? as set fof .l in my said appiieation, reti 'than against an inking ad or roii, is

in use an may coneeqn *neig be without danger of soiling usere hands er clothing.

I daim:

1. A device of the character described comprising a printing piante harn@ e, raised. upper surface having raised. cneiecters thereon, and marginali base iienges borderm ing a bottom recess on four sidesS and n sheet secured within said recesst 2. A printing plate for use es en identification device shaped to seat in e printing device without attachment tiieiete and having raised printing characters in non-- reversed order.

3. A device of the character described comprising a printing plete having raised surface having raised characters 'lie-reen marginal base flanges bordering bottom recess on four sidesn Signed by me at Bostona Mess.F this; 28th day of June, 1929.,

RICHARD Ml UUWALE.

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